No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts are broken, heads are turned.

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.

The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.

Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is

The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.

No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.

You don't have to thank me. I love you.

For me, your real age is not the age on your ID. That's just a date when you were born.

Never worry about what anyone else is doing...Just swim your own race.

My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me.

Magnify the virtues, minimize the faults.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm learning to not want to be someone else, to just be who I am, as is, with nothing extra added on.

This sacrifice of a pawn nowadays is only played for drawing purposes. Especially against the very strongest masters it has proved to be quite useful to this end.

How is it possible that Courtney Love looks worse than Kurt Cobain?

I have a bad habit of playing little emotional games with men. When they date me it's cool in the beginning, we do our thing in the first month, and then I send them on a rollercoaster ride to hell.

Doesn't the world inside a black and white photograph seem more real? It's because the real world is losing its color